Word: patching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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summer And in trousers with a patch an acre-wide...
Dayan has become a larger-than-life figure, and his black eye patch a cartoonists' symbol of Israeli military proficiency. The man behind the eye patch, a laconic loner, is less well known. Now a number of fresh glimpses are provided in Moshe Dayan-A Biography, a 601-page study published in Israel last week and scheduled to be issued in the U.S. by Random House next fall...
...with his wife and four sons, rode the tide atop a patch of straw that had been the roof of their house. In the end, the man was alone. "They all lost their grip and floated away," he said, "my wife and sons, the big and the small ones." Said another victim: "That night it seemed as though the whole town was crying...
...even thought of looking for sponsors in Cambridge. They would buy our suits and we would wear a little patch somewhere, say for example, Joe's Pizza," Graff said...
Surgeons have something in common with auto mechanics and TV repairmen, since all are devoted to curing ills that baffle the amateur. But the men who cut and patch and sew the human heart inspire awe even among cynics, precisely because they are working at the beating heart of life. That sense of awe and vulnerability lends Thompson's work a special source of drama...